The brief resilience scale: Assessing the ability to bounce back

By Bruce W. Smith, J. Dalen, Kathryn T. Wiggins, Erin Tooley, Paulette J. Christopher, J. Bernard. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2008

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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The Temporal Elements of Psychological Resilience: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Individuals, Families, and Communities (2015, neutral): “, & Phelps, E. A. (2007). Neural mechanisms mediating optimism bias.”
A Critical Review of Scales Used in Resilience Research (2017, methodology): “DOI: 10.9790/487X-1904032333 www.iosrjournals.org 23 | Page Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale 10 (CD-RISC 10), Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA), Brief Resilience Scale (BRS).”
Role of demands-resources in work engagement and burnout in different career stages (2018, background): “’ Answers were rated on a 5-point scale (1= totally agree; 5= totally disagree) (Smith et al., 2008).”
Resilience, Academic Self-Concept, and College Adjustment Among First-Year Students (2018, background): “, college adjustment, resilience, and academic self-concept) were neither too high nor too low, which was accordant with scores associated with the norm groups used in the validation of the instruments (Reynolds et al., 1980; Smith et al., 2008; Watson & Lenz, 2018).”
A Pilot Study Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Cortisol Awakening Response and Health Outcomes among Law Enforcement Officers (2015, methodology): “The BRS has demonstrated good internal consistency (α = .83), a single factor structure, and expected correlations with a variety of constructs, including perceived stress, depression, and active coping (Smith et al. 2008).”
Information overload and fake news sharing: A transactional stress perspective exploring the mitigating role of consumers’ resilience during COVID-19 (2021, background): “The concept of resilience is derived from the Latin word ‘resilire’ meaning to jump back or rebound (Smith et al., 2008).”
Depression and Attempted Suicide among LGBTQ College Students: Fostering Resilience to the Effects of Heterosexism and Cisgenderism on Campus (2018, positive): “We see resilience in two ways: (a) broadly as the psychological capacity to bounce back from stressful situations (Smith et al., 2008) and (b) possessing personal qualities that may enable this process (Fergus & Zimmerman, 2005).”
Resilience, Leadership and Work Engagement: The Mediating Role of Positive Affect (2017, methodology): “Resilience was measured using 6-item, 5-point Likert scale Brief Resilience Scale (Smith et al., 2008) (α=.”
Resilience isn't the same for all: Comparing subjective and objective approaches to resilience measurement (2018, methodology): “Indeed, in some cases it is difficult to make clear distinctions between the questions and methods of tools listed in Table 2 and Box 1 when compared with the common approaches in these neighboring fields—such as the Connor Davidson Resilience Scale (Connor & Davidson, 2003) or the Brief Resilience ”
Working on my own: Measuring the challenges of gig work (2021, background): “, 2012) and psychological resilience (Smith et al., 2008).”
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) enhances distress tolerance and resilience through changes in mindfulness (2016, methodology): “The BRS has demonstrated good internal consistency and good test-retest reliability (Smith et al., 2008; Windle, Bennett, & Noyes, 2011).”
Academic expectation, self-compassion, psychological capital, social support and student wellbeing (2020, neutral): “The BRS contains six items and scores range from 1 = Strongly Disagree to 5 = Strongly Agree .”